What happened to server loyalty?
Free Transfers happened.
There is no point in being loyal to a losing team, and considering that they only recently noted “most improved” as a good suggestion, it seems like it might not arrive at the same time as leagues.
No server loyalty? Well i’m still playing on vabbi knowing we have no chance to cover anything. Some things are greater than mere loot. If you find those people losing doesn’t seem that bad anymore …
I like this suggestion. Players should get rewaded for staying in a server and for participation
I am not loyal to the server i play on. I dont know 99.999% of the players, most of them are idiots especially when it comes to WvW and are mere fair weather players. Fight a strong opponent and outmanned on 3 maps. Fight servers worst and queue’s everywhere as we’re winning.
The server doesnt care about WvW. I play with my friends and guildmates and ill support them.
I don’t see any reason to be loyal to my server. I wish there were a reason, but nobody cares and they have no reason to care. If we’re winning and earn the wold-wide bonuses it really only benefits the stupid oblivious PvE players that never enter WvW except when they need to go get their badges of jumping. If we’re losing, people just lose morale and stop playing WvW and others jump-ship.
It doesn’t matter if we win or lose so nobody cares. Server loyalty in other games was based on real impact to the community. If you let the opposite faction run amok, everyone got ganked in the open world. People naturally band together in such situations. There’s a reason to succeed.
I like the general gist of the OP’s suggestions.
This happened to DAoC (google the game).
At first transfers were locked. So server pride was huge. Then they made it locked to 24hrs, then less, and less and less. Server pride when out the window and so did the game.
Free transfers happened. One of the biggest mistakes anet made was not implementing the game with guesting already in and paid transfers.
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Free transfers would have been fine for a few weeks as people got settled in but Anet allowed it to happen for way too long. Believe it was close to 2 months or more…
there is not guild loyalty and you expect server loyalty lol
Fissure of Woe till the bitter end!!!!
Yeah, server loyalty still exists
Commander – Jam Death [Jd]
Fissure of Woe
Look at my signature.. it’s not as important to some people as it is to others. Just like PPT and GvG and roaming and everything else in this game.
My fun laughs at your server pride.
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Our guild moves depending on several things, most of them to do with queue times, server population and the amount of WvW guilds in the match ups, Originally we were on SFR but thanks to the free transfers, queue times shot up to 4 hours at times and it wasn’t a pleasant experience having to wait for all our guild members to get into WvW.
IMHO as nice as your ideas are, I dont think your solutions would keep us to stay on one server. From the guilds Flare [FIRE] has interacted with they are more interested with the fights rather then actual WvW content, gaining points is more of a background interest, fighting a good guild in WvW is what we look for.
I think what anet need to do is even out the players with interest in WvW, get some incentives to get WvW guilds in to the lower tier servers so the WvW population on each server is about even. Hard to do I know, since everyone wants to be on the top server.
Once the WvW is more evenly populated then server loyalty could be taken into consideration.
What? Some people don’t buy into the meta of hating someone else because an arbitrary division has been created between them that in reality comes down to a few bits different in a server somewhere?
FOR SHAME!!!!
It’s a game. Please keep that in mind when being all fanatical.
They are loyally farming the living story champs.
it would be nice with something to show off for server loyalty.
What? Some people don’t buy into the meta of hating someone else because an arbitrary division has been created between them that in reality comes down to a few bits different in a server somewhere?
FOR SHAME!!!!
It’s a game. Please keep that in mind when being all fanatical.
I wasn’t aware people “hated” other people for being on different servers. I think some forum trolls rub others the wrong way but that’s something different. I don’t know if you’re joking or just overreacting.